Sanjukta Datta
Sanjukta Datta is an Assistant Professor of History at Ashoka University. A student of ancient Indian history, she earned her Ph.D. from University of Delhi in 2018. Datta works with epigraphic sources and her research interests focus on kingship, patronage, Buddhist networks and documentary culture. Archaeology is another area of her enquiry, and she has participated in excavations of the Archaeological Survey of India and has edited some of the organization’s publications. Professor Datta’s most recent and forthcoming publications include contributions in edited volumes as well as journals like the Indian Economic and Social History Review, Studies in History, and Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. She has written e-lessons on ancient Indian art for the NME-ILLL project, University of Delhi. Datta has taught in Gargi College and St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
A selected list of her published research articles include -
'Artefacts and antiquities in Bengal: Some Perspectives within an Emerging Non-official Archaeological Sphere', in Upinder Singh and Nayanjot Lahiri (ed.), Ancient India: New Research.
'In the King’s Shadow: Petitioner-donors of 8th-9thCentury Pāla Copper Plate Land Grant Charters' in Indian Economic and Social History Review.
Building for the Buddha: Patrons in the Pāla Kingdom', Studies in History.
Issuance, Engravers, and Omissions: Aspects of Copper Plate Land Grant Charters of the Pāla Dynasty', in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Jadavpur Session, 2017.
A selected list of her published book reviews include -
Book review of Prehistory and Archaeology of Northeast India: Multidisciplinary Investigation in an Archaeological Terra Incognita by Manjil Hazarika for the Indian Economic and Social History Review.
Book review of Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia by Himanshu Prabha Ray for Economic and Political Weekly.
A list of her forthcoming work includes -
Ways to the Vajrāsana: The Tibetan Approach (11th-13th Centuries CE)', in Meera Visvanathan, Mekhola Gomes, Digvijay Singh (ed.), The Social Worlds of Premodern Transactions: Perspectives from Epigraphy and History.
Picture Courtesy: Rutvi Zamre, Undergraduate Class of 2019